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This work aims to explore the relationship between innovation and inequality, specificly in Brazil in the last decade. Innovation in one hand t is an unquestioned driver of growth, while inequality in the other is a major economic problem, one that arguably hinders growth. Using literature review and three types of analysis, (1) the global innovation index together with the world bank gini index,

Världen står inför allvarliga och komplexa konsekvenser när det gäller klimatförändringar. Naturliga och mänskliga bosättningar på samtliga kontinenter är påverkade, och den afrikanska kontinenten anses höra till ett av världens mest utsatta områden bland annat på grund av snabb befolkningstillväxt och stort beroende av regn-bevattnat jordbruk. Denna uppsats handlar om klimatförändringar i Kenya. The world is facing serious and complex impacts with regard to climate change. Natural and human settlements on all continents are affected, and the African continent is considered as one of the most vulnerable areas due to rapid urbanization growth and high dependency on rain-fed agriculture, amongst others. This thesis focuses on climate change in Kenya. The first aim is to compare trends of cli

Strike-slip faults pose significant earthquake hazards in many populated areas and therefore information about their general behavior is needed in order to attempt to predict future earthquakes. Much of this information is acquired using paleoseismic techniques, which focus on analyzing past earthquakes. These include measurement of displacements of either geomorphic features or beds across faults

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och analysera företagsfaktorer vid redovisning av negativa aspekter i hållbarhetsredovisning. Uppsatsen syftar vidare till att belysa hur företag rättfärdigar negativa aspekter i hållbarhetsredovisning. Metod: Innehållsanalys har använts för att mäta negativa aspekter i hållbarhetsrapporter. För att vår innehållsanalys ska kunna följas upp och replikPurpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse corporate determinants of disclosing negative aspects in sustainability reports. Further the purpose is to shed light on how negative aspects are justified in sustainability reports. Methodology: Content analysis is used to measure negative aspects in sustainability reports. To enable content analysis to be performed in a replicable man

How the architecture relates to the nature reflects our overall view of the environment. The built has the ability and posibility to enlighten and enhance the value of the nature, as well as it can do the opposite. In Norrbotten, between Jokkmokk and Gällivare, lies Muddus. Muddus is Swedens largest national park forest with an old-growth forest unaffected by the modern forest industry. Ravines cu

This essay explores the relationship between ‘history’ and ‘fiction’ in Philippa Gregory’s historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl (2001). Taking a broadly New Historicist approach to that relationship, the essay examines how the fictional aspects of Gregory’s text are handled in relation to historical ‘fact’, how Gregory’s story illustrates the ways in which an historical novel can be used to addr

The fall of state socialism brought major social and political changes in all the countries that belonged to the Eastern Bloc. The most significant demographic transformations during the transition period were the decreasing fertility rates, the decline in marriages, the rise in cohabitation and the shift from traditional birth control methods towards effective contraception. This thesis tries to

The studied protein exists naturally in the human body and can self-assemble into nanospheres at certain physiological conditions. Recently, these nanospheres was found able to bind free heme, the highly reactive gas binding component in hemoglobin which can cause severe tissue damage if in free form in the body. Due to prior experiments, the hypothesis was that the protein-heme binding site conta

Traditional broadcasting of sport events, such as football or icehockey games, require continuos attention of a camera operator in order to capture the area which is of interest to a viewer. In many cases, however, this is not a practical solution, due to e.g. costs, and an automated solution is preferable. The first step of such an automated algorithm is to determine what part of the scene, calle

Matavfall, hur svårt är det egentligen att sortera rätt? Under de senaste åren i Sverige har det blivit allt viktigare att vi källsorterar vårt matavfall. Ett initiativ som har genomförts i syfte att minska den miljöpåverkan som orsakas av livsmedelsproduktionen. För att detta ska fungera krävs att vi sorterar vårt avfall rätt. Idag gör vi inte detta, utan vi slänger allt från plast, kattsand, tOne of the top priorities today in Sweden is to minimize the environmental impact caused from the food production. Swedish municipalities are therefor currently working to influence households to reduce their amount of food waste and increase the source separation. Relatively new statistics from municipalities has shown that the recycling ratio and the quality is significantly higher in single hou

Antalet personer som lever med en kronisk sjukdom ökar, detta som en konsekvens av bland annat en snabbt ökande äldre befolkning. Kroniska sjukdomar orsakar inte bara mänskligt lidande, utan är också en ekonomisk börda för samhället. För att lindra lidandet och minska kostnaderna kopplade till kroniska sjukdomar kan användandet av digitala hälsotjänster vara en möjlighet. För närvarande är förväntThe amount of people living with chronic diseases is increasing. Chronic diseases do not only induce human suffering, it is also an economic burden on society. To ease the suffering and reduce the costs connected to chronic diseases, the usage of digital health services might be a possibility. Currently, the expectations on such services are high, but not met. To better meet the expectations, this

What could be considered an adequate level of daylight in buildings has become a debated question in the Swedish building industry. The current daylight requirements are often found difficult to meet in practice, especially in combination with other requirements regarding energy use. Outdated daylight requirements in the national building code combined with limited knowledge about the subjective i

Abstract Title: Influencing the Front-End of Innovation: A Study of Resource Challenges in The Banking Sector Date of Hand-in: 17/05/2017 Course: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Internship and degree project ENTN 39 (Master’s Thesis 15 ECTS) Author: Adam Kachra-Johansson and Ross Mckinlay Supervisor: Joakim Winborg Examiner: Sotaro Shibayama Keywords: Resources, Resource challeng

Using data from 33 OECD countries for the years 1980-2014, we estimate the effects of financial openness on innovation through the use of fixed effects panel data regression. After establishing innovation as a core factor in technological growth, we derive, with the help of Schumpeterian models of growth, an argument that the financial system has a significant role in the development of innovation

The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and the level of deregulation of these markets do have a positive impact on economic growth. Furthermore, the purpose is to analyse whether the lower economic performance in southern Europe may possibly be explained by lower levels of investment in ICT and slower deregulation of the ICT ma

Over the past 30 years, globalization emerged as a trend and has completely taken over the world we live in now. According to UN data sources, there were 244 million international migrants - 20 of which are forced refugees, living abroad worldwide in 2015. Hypermobility, standardisation od space and distance are the some of the consequences of globalization. Detachment from something familiar, los

The aim of this study was to examine the work with self-harm within residential care homes for unaccompanied refugees. Furthermore, we wanted to determine how professionals look upon their own competence and the residential care’s ability concerning self-harm. In addition to this we wanted to distinguish different professional approaches within the work. Through semi-structured interviews, we spok

The current refugee crisis in Europe has led to an increased presence of the subject in the European debate. In many countries, refugees are met with suspicion and hatred as a result of widespread islamophobia, and this particular movement is clearly visible in Central Europe. The Visegrád group, an alliance between Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary originally formed to accelerate the

In the beginning of 2016 there were a relatively well noted case in Sweden where a woman reported that she had been group raped during one of Silja Galaxys student cruises. Four men got suspected for the crime and the whole story went up online at a discussion website called Flashback Forum, where members discussed the case. Due to the fact that media started reporting frequently about the event,

The Business Intelligence (BI) systems are increasingly becoming an important piece of the puzzle for the success of organizations. That being so, it is important to acknowledge the benefits that can be obtained from the use of such systems. Furthermore, for those who hesitate in investing in BI systems this research presents how the organizations operating in different business fields are using t